One bump after another

It has been a while since I blogged last, first of due to work draining me of any energy to do anything. But that is getting better. Last year I got pulled over again for having no insurance on our vehicle, I was able to get out of jail and make a few payments then lost my job and instead of going to the judge to ask for more time, I just let it go and figured when i get my taxes, I will pay it off. Well Saturday night when we got home, there was a card from an officer of the police dept on our door asking me to call him. I did so and he said I should come to court on Thursday and plead my case since I had a warrent for my arrest and he would rather have me do that then take his time taking me to jail. So I fretted all week long. On Sunday, I felt sick and even dry heaved that morning. Then i got sicker from there out. I could not work on monday because I now had the flu. My temp went up to 103 Monday night and I called in sick to work for Tuesday. Our home teachers came over and gave me a blessing Monday night and it did help. Wednesday I was still weak but Chris and I went out and did a few things. Tried to get to bed early enough on Wednesday night so that I could be good to work on Thursday, but came in to work and only worked 4 hours. It was all my body could take. I came home, got showered, rested a bit and then we headed down to the court house. After waiting for what felt like eternity, I got my turn at the hot seat and he asked if I had read and understood the sheet for the statement, I said I had. He informed me that I had a statewide warrent for my arrest and asked if I had the bail money to pay. I told him I did not, he then informed me that I would be going to jail. So he had me sit back down and for nearly an hour I tried to tell Chris through the glass that i was going to jail, and I needed bail. When the court officer(police chief of Sunset) saw I was trying to make contact with Chris, he came over and asked if I would like to go speak to her. I asked if I could, he said no problem. I let Chris know, and then we had a hard choice to make. I called the Bishop and explained to him the situation. The bail to get out from going to jail was $975. 850 for the fine, and the other for court costs. He said he would see what he could do. Nearly 30 mins later as I was still sitting there in the court praying that the Lord would see some sort of miracle, Chris signaled me that he was there and we could get it done. Got it paid, and our Bishop asked if he could meet with us in his office later that night. We said we would. Paid the court, went back upstairs, waited for my time to show the judge the bail was paid. He called me back up, looked over everything and closed the case, and told me if this ever happens again, to just show up for court if I ever got in a bind and couldn't pay. He would be happy to work with me if I just let him know instead of just brushing it off. So that is taken care of.
Later that night, we went to the church to meet with the Bishop. We sat down and went over what we had to pay, how much we were getting and what he could do to help. He saw that we go good for a bit then have a bump in the road that sets us back a bit. He also shared and made a copy of a letter from Elder Callister of the 70. He was writing on behalf of the 1st Presidency and letting us know that they had received the letter and that President Johnson had sent off the letter prematurly. It could not be processed until at least a year passed the date of the most recent reinstatement to full fellowship. Which would be around late September. Just a week or so before Chris is due to deliver. So now at least we know. It will take another 6 months of waiting to have the blessings restored. It wasn't the answer we were hoping for, but at least we have an answer. So I have a thought that for the new baby blessing, we would hold off, until my parents are here, or if they could come in November and have my dad be part of the circle, I think that would be really great that he could be there for it. Also we thought of going and getting all of us sealed after the birth of the baby too. At least Chris and I could go get her endowments and then get sealed later. So that is the plan for now. And that is what has been going on.